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Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.

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Author:   Nico Staring ,  Huw Twiston Davies ,  Lara Weiss
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
Volume:   21
ISBN:  

9789088907937

ISBN 10:   9088907935
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction N. Staring, H. Twiston Davies and L. Weiss   Re-awakening Osiris at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos). New evidence for votive offerings and other religious practices Julia Budka   Appropriation of territory through migrant ritual practices in Egypt’s eastern Delta Miriam Müller   Prosopographia Memphitica – Analyzing Prosopographical Data and Personal Networks from the Memphite Necropolis Anne Herzberg   Immortality as the response of others Lara Weiss   Votive practices in the local shrines of ancient Egypt Richard Bussmann   In Hathor’s womb. Shifting agency of iconographic environments: The private tombs of the Theban necropolis under the prism of cultural geography Alexis den Doncker   The Talking Dead: Funerary inscriptions, cairns, and landscape in the Jordanian Harrah Ahmad al-Jallad   ‘Epigraphical Landscape Appropriation – New Kingdom Rock Inscriptions in Upper Nubia’ Johannes Auenmüller   A landscape biography approach to the study of the Saqqara New Kingdom necropolis Nico Staring   ‘Architecture of Intimidation: Political Ecology and Landscape Manipulation in Early Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Cecil   Text Transmission as a Composition Process: The Case of the Saite Religious Texts Ramadan Hussein   The Harpist’s Song at Saqqara: Transmission, Performance, and Context Huw Twiston Davies   The Crying Game. Some thoughts about the “cow and calf” scenes on the sarcophagi of Aashyt and Kawit Burkhard Backes   Human and material aspects in the process of transmission and copying the Book of the Dead in the tomb of Djehuty (TT 11) Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos   From Viṣṇu to Sūrya / From Śiva to Sūrya: Tracking Processes of Transmission and Recreation in Sanskrit Religious Literature Peter Bisschop   Attending the Grave on a Clear Spring Day: The Linked Ecology of Religious Life in Contemporary Urban China Anna Sun

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Nico Staring is a postdoctoral research fellow (Chargé de recherches) at the F.R.S.-FRNS / Université de Liège (2021-2024). He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Leiden University’s Walking Dead project and lectured at KU Leuven University. Staring received his doctorate from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Huw Twiston Davies is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara. The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018-2022). Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018. Lara Weiss is Curator Egyptian Collections at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and one of the field directors of the Leiden-Turin Expedition to Saqqara. She initiated and leads the Walking Dead project (2017-2022) at Leiden University and received her habilitation from Erfurt University in the Study of Ancient Religions in 2022.

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